It’s about a TV show but I’m looking for a specific firearm ID so I’ll try it here. Mods move if you feel appropriate.
Tonight on “Kingpin” episode.
When the crazy voodoo guy shoots his own man with the big automatic of the Kingpin’s brother to prove the voodoo necklace protects him from bullets (it didn’t). What was that handgun?
I didn’t see it, but a lot of TV shows and movies use the Desert Eagle. www.magnumresearch.com
Was that it?
Was the barrel triangular in cross-section?
Wow, hard to tell from that pic. Looks like a standard 1911 style pistol to me. I guess I will just have to watch the show sometime and get a better look.
Desert Eagle? (I had to bite)
If you’re from Canada, the show is on CTV Tuesdays at 10pm.
was it the same gun that was used to shoot the old man on the boat in the first episode? if so, it was indeed a Desert Eagle.
Looks like a lower caliber desert eagle.
It’s a desert eagle. I hate hollywood’s obsession with that piece of shit.
I wish we’d get more use of cool guns.
The gun in the photo linked to is definitely a Desert Eagle. I believe that you mistake it for a 1911 because of the thumb spur, but the gun is much too large and entirely the wrong shape for a 1911.
And the Desert Eagle is still cool…
Same as the guns used by the agents in The Matrix. Also the same as the one used in the boardroom demonstration scene in Robocop.
They’re readily identifiable because, from the front, they look like a triangle on top of a square, with the barrel in the center of the triangle. That triangle-shape is the distinctive part.
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like that.
kinda of of a hijack, but if you think the Eagle looks cool, go to the magnum research site and take a look at the gold titanium one.
Yeah, I see that now. Hard to make out on my crappy little coffee table laptop machine.
There is a nifty page on their website that shows most of its appearances on film:
Me too. I suggest the .44 AutoMag. You would never mistake it for any other gun. A foot long gun made of stainless steel and titanium. It’s just soooo pretty!
Wasn’t any Titanium in the old AutoMag. The original design cropped up in the mid to late sixties, and as far as handgun use went, just stainless steel was wondrous and exotic.
Stainless had the propensity to “gall”- where fast-moving surfaces tried to “cold weld” to each other, causing rapid wear and erratic motion- and using it in a firearm in the sixties’ took some research and experimentation.
The cure, as I understand it, is to use two different alloys between the two major moving parts (typically receiver and slide) and vary the heat treating (one slightly harder than the other) and that more or less cured it.
The design was “exotic” in that it used a form of short-recoil rotary bolt locking, and was a semi-auto that fired a “magnum” class handgun round (both all but totally unheard of before then; remember the .44 Magnum itself was barely ten years old) in addition to the at-the-time-exotic stainless steel, but it used no titanium.